Position Overview:
The Central Falls School District seeks to hire a talented, knowledgeable, and highly innovative certified educator to fill the self-contained special educator position at Veterans Memorial Elementary School for the 2024-2025 school year. All CFSD educators are expected to carry out the District’s core values of EQUITY, EMPOWERMENT, and EXCELLENCE as they work towards building relationships with students/colleagues, delivering personalized, high-quality instruction, cultivating strong partnerships with our families and community, and meeting all position expectations and District policies. Certified staff is expected to abide by the Rhode Island Professional Teaching Standards and the CFSD/CFTU collective bargaining agreement policies and procedures. Guided by the District’s Strategic Plan, we strive to prepare all students for success!
Position Requirements/Qualifications:
● Valid RI Certificate in Early Childhood Education PK-2; Valid RI Certificate in Early Childhood SPED
● Valid RI Certification in ESL or completed within three (3) years.
● Bilingual preferred
● Experience successfully teaching students who are differently-abled and/or multilingual learners is greatly
preferred.
● Strong commitment to the District’s core values of Equity, Empowerment, and Excellence
● Commitment to abiding by all professional teaching standards and policies as outlined by the Rhode Island
Department of Education and the District’s policies, procedures, and the CFTU collective bargaining
agreement.
● Under Rhode Island General Law 16-2-18.1, all NEWLY hired employees will be required to obtain a State
and National background check (BCI) from the Rhode Island Attorney General's Office prior to the
employment start date.
Position Requirements/Qualifications:
● Full classroom responsibilities for direct instruction to students in a self-contained program
● Creates and implements a compelling vision of the curriculum, teaching, and learning standards and
practices that align with the Common Core and WIDA Standards and will result in college and career
readiness for each and every student.
● Will Implement, develop and manage students and all of their provided services, including assigned
Individualized Education Programs (IEP) in accordance with all State and Federal Regulations. ● Collaborate
as part of a teaching team as indicated by student needs and/or IEPs. Cooperatively plan, teach, and engage
as part of a team with other educators by providing services in or outside the classroom to meet IEP needs.
● Incorporates students’ backgrounds and experiences to improve performance and enhance instruction by
using a variety of techniques to ensure content concepts are comprehensible and advance students’ literacy.
● Develop and implement classroom and curricular accommodations and modifications for all students,
including language development adaptations for ELLs.
● Ability to identify new approaches and strategies to learning and teaching that stimulates critical thinking
and problem-solving techniques.
● Provides instructional support to help scaffold language and content domains to deliver rich, authentic
instructions for all students.
● Uses various assessment information to plan instruction and set all academic goals, plans, activities, and
actions on what is in the best interest of each student.
● Cultivates a stewardship of collaborative learning and leadership in and out of the classroom, distributing
knowledge and expertise in a skillful way that empowers and supports others.
● Consistently practice a growth mindset, demonstrating a strong class culture and using feedback to reflect
and set goals.
● Fulfills high academic standards and shares expertise constantly with support personnel, colleagues, and
staff to ensure that all student academic and social/emotional needs are met and regularly provided;
specifically, collaborating with special education and ELL colleagues to provide accommodations outlined
in a student’s IEP when needed and collaborating with staff to align curriculum with Common Core and
Wida Standards.
● Ability to understand, analyze and evaluate information and make connections among multiple factors, data
points, ideas, learning styles, personalities, and potential solutions to make the best decision possible.
● Incorporate a student's background in the lesson plan and understand how to linguistically make connections
with prior native language development.
● Sets and pursues meaningful goals based on educational best practices and focused on improving
student/stakeholder outcomes at all times.
● Consistently demonstrates a belief that the individual is capable of learning and growth; learns from
reflection and feedback and actively assesses own knowledge, skills, and talent deficits and makes a
● Ensure that practices enable students, staff, and parents to interact effectively in a culturally diverse
environment in which ALL backgrounds, identities, customs, and traits are respected and built into the
learning process.
● Demonstrates ethical behavior, expectations, and a genuine concern for others under all circumstances;
models what is expected of others.
● Completes all tasks, reports, and all necessary requirements associated with teaching a class in a timely
manner.
● Maintain and use adaptive/assistive technology as needed.
● Effectively communicates with families regularly to discuss student performance, attendance, progress, etc.,
via phone calls, emails, and written correspondence.
● Such other duties as deemed necessary by the building administrator or Director of Equity, Empowerment,
and Excellence for Students with Disabilities.